Kjetil Lund

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Kjetil Lund
Director of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
Assumed office
1 April 2019
Preceded byAnne Britt Leifseth (acting)
Oslo City Commissioner for Business and Ownership
In office
19 December 2017 – 28 February 2019
Governing MayorRaymond Johansen
Preceded byGeir Lippestad
Succeeded byMarthe Scharning Lund
Personal details
Born (1970-06-12) 12 June 1970 (age 53)
Vigrestad, Rogaland, Norway
Political partyLabour

Kjetil Lund (born 1970) is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.

He hails from Vigrestad.[1] He studied at the University of Bergen from 1990, taking the cand.mag. degree in 1992. In 1996 he took the cand.polit. degree in economics. From 1997 he worked one year in Statistics Norway, before being hired in the Ministry of Finance. After advancing through the hierarchy, and spending the years 2003 to 2005 as an adviser in Tanzania, he was hired as a senior adviser in the Office of the Prime Minister at the inception of the Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet in 2005. In 2009 he changed job, to State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance.[2] He remained such until Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet fell in October 2013.[3] In 2014 he was an adviser to Stoltenberg, who was now a UN Special Envoy on Climate Change.[4]

Kjetil Lund was subsequently an executive in Statkraft. In 2017 he was appointed to the city government of Oslo as City Commissioner of Business and Ownership, succeeding Geir Lippestad.[4] In 2019 Lund became the new director of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Kjetil Lund fra Vigrestad erstatter Geir Lippestad som næringsbyråd i Oslo". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). 19 December 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Tidligere statssekretær Kjetil Lund (Ap)" (in Norwegian). Government.no. 20 October 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Jens Stoltenberg's Second Government". Government.no. 15 February 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  4. ^ a b Bratten, Magnus Torvald; et al. (19 December 2017). "Lippestad går av" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Byråd Kjetil Lund utnevnt til vassdrags- og energidirektør". Dagsavisen (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
Political offices
Preceded by Oslo City Commissioner of Business and Ownership
2017–2019
Succeeded by
Civic offices
Preceded by
Anne Britt Leifseth (acting)
Director of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
2019–
Succeeded by
Incumbent